Alsodidae

Alsodes verrucosus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Alsodidae
Genera (3): Alsodes – Eupsophus – Limnomedusa

Name

Alsodidae Mivart, 1869

• Type genus: Alsodes Bell, 1843.

Synonymy

• Alsodina Mivart, 1869: 290 [original rank, as subfamilia]
• Alsodini — Lynch, 1969: 3 [subsequent rank, reduced to tribus]
• Eupsophiinae Lutz, 1969: 281
  • Type genus: Eupsophus Fitzinger, 1843.
• Alsodinae — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006: 153 [subsequent rank, elevated to subfamilia]
• Alsodidae — Pyron & Wiens, 2011: 546 [subsequent rank, elevated to familia]

References

Primary references

• Mivart, S.G. 1869. On the Classification of the Anurous Batrachians. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 37(1): 280–295. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1869.tb07329.x . BHL Reference page. 
• Grant, T., Frost, D.R., Caldwell, J.P., Gagliardo, R., Haddad, C.F.B., Kok, P.J.R., Means, D.B., Noonan, B.P., Schargel, W.E. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1–262. hdl: 2246/5803 Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 543–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 2011. Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. Pp 39–55 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  Reference page. 
• Blotto, B.L., Nuñez, J.J., Basso, N.G., Úbeda, C.A., Wheeler, W.C. & Faivovich, J. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships of a Patagonian frog radiation, the Alsodes + Eupsophus clade (Anura: Alsodidae), with comments on the supposed paraphyly of Eupsophus. Cladistics 29(2): 113–131. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00417.x Reference page. 
• Streicher, J.W., Miller, E.C., Guerrero, P.C., Correa, C., Ortiz, J.C., Crawford, A.J., Pie, M.R. & Wiens, J.J. 2018. Evaluating methods for phylogenomic analyses, and a new phylogeny for a major frog clade (Hyloidea) based on 2214 loci. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 119: 128–143. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.013 Reference page. 

For more multimedia, look at Alsodidae on Wikimedia Commons.